Nashville Kangaroos

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Nashville
Image:Nashville kangaroos logo.jpg
Full name Nashville Kangaroos
Nickname Kangaroo
Strip Blue, with white vertical sash and red kangaroo emblem
Founded 1997
Sport Australian rules football
League MAAFL
Ground Elmington Park
Club song n/a
President/Chair Grant White
Coach Grant White
Captain Luke Nemeth
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The Nashville Kangaroos is an Australian/American social and sports club based in Nashville, Tennessee in the United States. It competes in Australian rules football (often called "Aussie rules") in the MAAFL and USAFL National Championships, and organises netball in the region.

The club also runs a Metro Footy league, known as the Nashville Australian Football League

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The club was founded in 1997. It is one of the oldest Aussie Rules clubs in the United States and founded Nashville's popular annual Australian Festival.

The club holds the record for Aussie Rules attendance in the USA, regularly drawing hundreds of spectators to its home ground.

It has an ongoing involvement in college Aussie Rules in the US through the Vanderbilt University Australian Rules club.

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Clubs in the Mid American Australian Football League
Dallas Magpies | Chicago United | Milwaukee Bombers | St Louis Blues

Nashville Kangaroos | Atlanta Kookaburras | Cincinnati Dockers

Clubs in the United States Australian Football League

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